Peacebuilding and the Arts

"Autobiography," Jane Sapp

"The Group of Eighteen," Jane Sapp and Cynthia Cohen, cultural facilitation for the Bert and Mary Meyer Foundation, 1995

"Folk Traditions of Greene County," Life magazine

"Cultural Work — A Powerful Resource for Change," Jane Sapp, in "Global Partnerships for Education" (pdf), 2002, pp. 6-9. Institute report, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University, Waltham Massachusetts

"Creative Approaches to Coexistence, Reconciliation and Development" (pdf) Cynthia Cohen. Analysis and recommendations from the online project "Recasting Reconciliation Through Culture and the Arts: A Virtual Collection," Brandeis University, 2005

"Carry It On: Songs of America's Working People," with Pete Seeger and Si Kahn, 1985

"We've All Got Stories: Songs From the Dream Project," project director, music coordinator and co-producer, 1996. Recording of 21 kids from multicultural backgrounds and communities performing songs written in workshops with Jane Sapp

"Take a Look at My People," solo album, 1983

"The Children of Selma: Who Will Speak for the Children?" co-producer, 1998. Featuring original, contemporary civil rights from the Children of Selma

"Movin' On" (2005)

List of songs to which Jane Sapp contributed

"Origins and Development of Black Gospel Music in Black People and Their Culture," published by the African Diaspora Program of the Smithsonian Institution, 1977

"Culture: The Roots of Community Spirit and Power," printed by the Highlander Research and Education Center, New Market, Tennessee, 1989

Interview with Jane Sapp and concert review, Ms. magazine, May/June 1992

"FoIklife Along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway'' (an article on Jane Sapp's research and folklife study in Alabama and Mississippi), Life magazine, August 1982

"The Center for Cultural and Community Development" (a major scholarly study of Jane Sapp as cultural worker), in "A Tradition That Has No Name," written by Mary Belenky, Lynne A. Bond and Jacqueline S. Weinstock, Basic Books, New York, 1997

"Music and Emancipatory Learning in Three Community Education Programs" (Jane Sapp's work is featured in this book), Gwendolyn Kaltoft, Teacher's College Press, New York

"Educating Leaders for Social Transformation" (includes Jane Sapp's work), Dean G. Elias, Teachers College Press, New York, 1993

"The Promised Land," a five-part BBC Documentary series broadcast on the Discovery Channel in the U.S., used "Movin' On" by Jane Sapp as theme song for the series

Featured on "A Prairie Home Companion," National Public Radio, 1994

Carnegie Hall (with Pete Seeger), New York City, 1983

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with Pete Seeger), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000

Chapman University, Orange, California, 1999

Chitauqua Institute, Chitauqua, New York, 1993

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1996

Popular Educators Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 1999

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1999

Iron Horse, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1989, 92, 94

Village Vanguard, New York City, 1984

Harvard University ("Harvaid" concert for divestment), Cambridge, Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992

Seattle Community College, Seattle, Washington, 1988, 1991

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, 1984

York University, Toronto, 1992

World’s Fair, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1986

National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, 1994, 1996

American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts, Falmouth, Massachusetts, 1993

Peace Church, Portland, Maine, 1993, 1994, 1996

Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998

Chicago Folk Festival, Chicago, 1985

University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, 1988, 1996

Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Detroit, 1989

National Women's Music Festival, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982

Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1997

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1998

Goddard College, Montpelier, Vermont, 1998

Communiversity, Bath, Maine, 1998

St. Paul's Academy, New Hampshire, 1990, 1991

United Farmers and Ranchers Congress, Denver, 1985

Concert, Boulder, Colorado, 1985

Brearley School, New York City, 1984

Campaign for Human Development (75th anniversary), Chicago, 1995

Boise University, Boise, Idaho

Clearwater Festival, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1982, 1985, 1990, 1992

Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1995

Washington University, St. Louis, 1978

American Friends Service, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1990, 1998

Gospel Requiem in Memory of the Middle Passage, First Church, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1997

Interfaith Reconciliation Service, DeKalb County, Georgia, 2019

Workshop facilitator, student and staff retreat on cultural diversity, Goddard College, Montpelier, Vermont, 1989-present

Workshop presenter, "Songwriting and African-American Culture," 21st Century Leadership Camp, Selma, Alabama, 1985-present

Coordinator and lead facilitator, International Institute on Culture and Community-Based Education, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 2001

Panelist, Culture and Youth Organizing annual meeting, National Network for Grantmakers, Montreal, 1993, 2000

Workshop facilitator, "The Power of a Dream: Music in the Civil Rights Movement," North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Western Carolina University, Cullowee, North Carolina, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1999

Presenter: "Re-Imagining Self and Other: Creativity and Ethical Action in the Aftermath of Violence" symposium, Brandeis University, Oct. 13-14, 2004

Field researcher, Festival of American Folk Life, African Diaspora Program, Smithsonian Institution, 1974-1976

Penn Community Center, 1971-1972:

• Director, folklife study and oral history of Black communities, South Carolina Sea Islands

• Founder, Festival of Low Country, South Carolina

• Founder, York W. Bailey Museum at Penn Center, St. Helena’s Island, South Carolina

Director, major folklife study of Black communities along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway area, Miles College-Eutaw, 1979-1982. Study included nine counties in northeast Mississippi and seven counties in west Alabama. A festival was organized in 1977, which continues today. Research resulted in a collection of 250 cassette tape interviews and recordings and several hundred photographs, along with video tapes and transcripts

Founder and developer, Black Folk Roots Festival, Greene County, Alabama, 1975

Founder, Youth Creative and Leadership Development Group, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1994-2005